Pivoting Camera Clutch Strap for Secure Two-Finger Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Photographers face challenges in conveniently carrying, accessing, and using cameras during fast-paced activities, leading to potential damage, loss, or difficulty in holding the camera due to the need for both hands, and existing solutions like rubber bands and straps are unsatisfactory.
Innovation Solution
A camera clutch system with a camera plate and strap designed to fit less than four fingers, allowing the user to secure the camera with two fingers, enabling the remaining fingers to operate the camera, and featuring a pivotable strap and pressure-relieving design to minimize torque and facilitate easy access to camera components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional strap is used to secure the camera, then the camera is held securely, but the user cannot operate the camera controls with their fingers
Solution Approach 1:
The strap is divided into multiple functional sections: a camera attachment portion, a finger passage portion with multiple openings, and a user hand portion. This segmentation allows the strap to simultaneously secure the camera while permitting finger insertion for operating controls, resolving the contradiction between security and operability.
Solution Approach 2:
The strap acts as an intermediary device between the camera and the user's hand. It transfers the camera's weight and provides secure attachment while simultaneously serving as a conduit for the user's fingers to reach the camera controls, mediating between the need for security and the need for access.
2Ease of operation
If a wrist or neck rope is used to carry the camera, then the camera is easily accessible, but the camera can be accidentally dropped during physical activities
Solution Approach 1:
The strap incorporates a pivotable connection point that allows dynamic adjustment of the strap's position and angle. This dynamic feature enables the strap to adapt to various user movements and physical activities, maintaining secure attachment while preserving easy accessibility, thereby resolving the contradiction between accessibility and security.
3Ease of operation
If a strap is designed to fit four fingers, then all fingers can be used for operation, but the strap is too large and cumbersome for secure handling
Solution Approach 1:
The strap features local variation in size: the finger passage portion has multiple small openings that fit individual fingers, while the overall strap structure remains compact and manageable. This local quality adjustment allows the strap to accommodate finger operations without being excessively large, resolving the contradiction between operational capability and device compactness.
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AI summary
A camera clutch system with a camera plate configured to transiently mount to a camera and a coupled to the camera plate and configured to attach to a camera body or the camera plate to form an opening or loop sized to accept less than four fingers of a user to secure a camera mounted to the camera plate to the user is provided.